Quotes about Absurdity
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
- Albert Camus
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
- Joseph Heller
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
- Albert Camus
Credere quia absurdum est
- Tertullian
I believe because it is absurd.
- Tertullian
But to say, as some writers alluded to by Augustine (Gen. ad lit. ii, 4), that waters resolved into vapor may be lifted above the starry heaven, is a mere absurdity.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.
- Cicero
If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.
- Virginia Woolf
The law is sic a ass - a idiot.
- Charles Dickens
May the Devil carry away these idiots!
- Charles Dickens
This sort of absurd subterfuge, and this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
- Thomas Paine